INDEX 



277 



Epigynum, 25, 68, 94, 97, 232 



Eresidae, 142, 263 



Erigone, 173 



Erigonids, 173 



Erigoninae, 172, 262 



Ero, 38, 175 



Esophagus, 13 



Euophrys monadnock, 88 



Euprosthenops, 210 



European tarantula, 243 



Euryopis, 163, 169 



argentea, 169 



junebris, 169 



spinigerus, 169 

 Evagrus, 118 

 Evolution, 99, 194 



of orb web, 176, 177 



of webs, 158 

 Excretory organs, 14 

 eximius, 167 

 extern a, 262 

 External gills, 12 

 Eyes, 14, 22 



Fabre, 176, 182 



Fall, 49 



False hackled band spinners, 234 



Fang, 23 



fasciculatus, 223 



Faunas, 49 



Featherfoot spiders, 150 



Fecundity, 222 



Feeding, 23 



of young, 164 

 Femur, 23 

 ferox, 143 

 fictilia, 1 68 

 Filistata, 149 



hib emails, 140 

 Filistatidae, 241 

 Filistatids, 140 

 Filmy dome spider, 171 

 fimbriatus, 35, 208 

 Fisher spiders, 4, 194, 205, 206 



capture of fish, 208 



capture of tadpoles, 208 



food of, 208 



funnel webs of, 210 



sheet webs of, 210 

 Fishing nets of the Papuans, 64 

 flavidus, 237 

 florem, 173 

 floridanus, 205 

 Florissant, 108 



Folding-door tarantulas, 130, 133 



foliata, 60 



Folklore, 126 



Food for Laos, 238 



Food of spiders, 17, 23, 124, 125, 208, 



237 



fordum, 166, 175 

 Foregut, 13 

 formica, 221, 230 

 Fossil spiders, 99 

 Foundation lines, 179 

 Four-lunged true spiders, 139 

 foxi, 183 

 frondeum, 166 

 Frontinella communis, 172 

 fimebris, 169 



Funnel- web spiders, 194, 216 

 Funnel webs, 210, 216 



Gabritschevsky, Eugen, 227 

 Ganglia, 14 

 Gasteracantha, 70, 188 



cancriformis, 188 



size, 70 



G aster acanthinae, 187 

 gasteracanthoides, 246 

 genmioldes, 190 

 Genital opening, 4, 32 

 Geolycosa, 204 

 geometricus, 249 

 gertschi, 152 

 Giant crab spiders, 223 

 giganteus, 20 

 Glands of spiders, 56 



aciniform, 57 



aggregate, 58 



ampullate, 57 



cribellar, 57 



cribellum, 58 



cylindrical, 57 



lobed, 57, 58 



maxillary, 23 



poison, 23 



pyriform, 57 



types of, 57 



venom, 108 

 Glenognatha, 183 



emertoni, 184 



foxi, 183 

 Gnaphosa, 262 

 Gnaphosidae, 228, 262 

 Gnathonargus unicorn, 173 

 Gossamer, 31, 59 



in the Yosemite Valley, 31 



